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NIACC Medical Office Specialist Degree
Curriculum

First Year

First Term

ACC-111   Introduction to Accounting   3 s.h.
  OR ACC-121 Principles of Accounting I (3 s.h.)
ADM-123*   Document Formatting   3 s.h.
ENG-102   Composition & Speech I   4 s.h.
HSC-144 Basic Pharmacology 2 s.h.
HSC-150   Body Structure & Function   4 s.h.
    16 s.h.

* Prerequisite: ADM-105, ADM-108 OR ability to pass keyboarding
test at 30 wam with 3 errors or less

Second Term

ADM-131   Office Calculators   1 s.h.
BCA-215   Computer Business Applications   3 s.h.
  OR BCA-101 Introduction to Computers
  and Information Systems (3 s.h.)
BUS-107 Business Careers 1 s.h.
BIO-102   Introductory Biology   3 s.h.
BIO-103   Introductory Biology Lab   1 s.h.
ENG-103   Composition & Speech II   4 s.h.
  Social Science or Humanities Elective(s)   3 s.h.
    16 s.h.

Second Year

Third Term

BCA-129 Basic Word Processing 2 s.h.
BUS-121   Business Communications   3 s.h.
HSC-120   Medical Terminology I   3 s.h.
  Social Science or Humanities Elective(s)   6 s.h.
    15 s.h.

Fourth Term

ADM-215***   Medical Office Procedures   3 s.h.
BCA-136*   Advanced Word Processing   3 s.h.
BCA-152****   Electronic Spreadsheets   3 s.h.
HSC-121   Medical Terminology II   3 s.h.
HIT-210**   Basic Medical Insurance & Coding   2 s.h.
   
    14 s.h.
  Total Program Hours   60 s.h.

* Prerequisites: BCA-215 or BCA-101 and BCA-129

** Prerequisites: HSC-150 or permission from instructor and HSC-120

*** Prerequisites: BCA-129 and BUS-121

**** Prerequisites: BCA-215 or BCA-101


For more information on the Medical Office Specialist Degree, please contact Diane Frank at 1-888-GO-NIACC, ext. 4252 or frankdia@niacc.edu


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